{"id":9834,"date":"2018-01-30T22:31:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T06:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=9834"},"modified":"2018-01-31T04:31:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T12:31:53","slug":"breaking-things-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/breaking-things-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Things To Learn To Do It Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I was talking to a person who needed some help fixing a hard drive where I suggested just simply opening it up and cleaning the connections may help.  This is a pretty straight forward process but of course it would be intimating for those who have never done it.  I then saw this story of a person who started his own phone repair business.  How he apparently started was he took a bunch of phones that were useless and tried to fix them.  This could be as simple as a broken screen.  It didn\u2019t matter if he broke them too as no one was going to use it either way.<\/p>\n<p>After doing it for quite some time he just got better and better to the point where he began to offer his service to people.  This actually attracted a lot of wealthy people where they just want the job done and paid him a lot to do so.  It made me think how many times finding an environment where you can practice and not worry about things breaking can be a huge stepping stones to acquiring new skills that can benefit you in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>Many times we wouldn\u2019t even want to try and therefore we become dependent on others which in some cases can man a lot of money.  You could say that is what a school is for too.  But often times there aren\u2019t courses for specific things like these unless you take an entire program of sorts.  The next best way is being a kid again and just finding things you can practice with where breaking it is just part of the learning process in many ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I was talking to a person who needed some help fixing a hard drive where I suggested just simply opening it up and cleaning the connections may help. This is a pretty straight forward process but of course it would be intimating for those who have never done it. I then saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[6952,1125,1114,21,6329],"class_list":["post-9834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-breaking-things","tag-education","tag-learning","tag-money","tag-trade-skill"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/above-vancouver-eye-of-wind.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-2yC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}